Opening Montage:

The film has been well and truly completed.. like possibly a month ago even. But recently we have been working on the intro.. and some form of light entertainment for those who aren't perhaps into the bodyboarding side of things. Anyway i can't reveal too much so here are a few classic frameys. ALSO TIX AVAILABLE FROM AQUATIQUE HUSKY AND HUSKY CINEMAS $10!! wooh!

It's all maino at Maino:

Maindeck - our local coffee haunt in Huskisson, has been regulated by our crew for the past four or so years now. Coffee trends have switched from latte's to capps and now finally onto the truly pretentious italian "Piccolo". Two shots to one part milk.. the ultimate maino, husky indy/electro/hipster, bodyboarders dream beverage. Piccolo's are soo dreamy and like chicks will think your all cultured and stuff..

Filmmaker = Froth

I received the above title as a facebook comment yesterday evening. Got me thinking, are women really attracted to that 5minutes of fame... a 2minute clip conversing with a WIN news reporter or a South Coast Register article. Being a single male i'm constantly aware and ever interested in the female psyche. I decided to have a little chat about babes, attracting women and love with 15 year old pipe grom Jackson Zammit.

8:47pm
Jackson Zammit: yer shouldnt u have a missess

Adam Quinn: haha probably

Jackson Zammit: ahah but u gotta find the right 1 or u will hav no time at all

Adam Quinn: haha for sure dude

Jackson Zammit: after this movie i think ya will get 1

Adam Quinn: hahaa whys that?

Jackson Zammit: coz they will see ya in it and think ur mr big movie star boy and yer any money i reackon play ur cards right and u will get 1

Adam Quinn: rad.. i wish thats how it worked

Jackson Zammit: ahah dw u will find 1 if i can get 1 u can get 1

Adam Quinn: yer love hurts aye

Jackson Zammit: haah i get ova it quick ayye
anywayz next time im out pipe i might get my dads camera and do some flimimg

Adam Quinn: sounds epic man ciao

Jackson Zammit: ahah yer anywayz ladd i cya later

Premiere Date Set - Shack City 6th of May:

Its game on... promotion time. Publicity, photo shoots, news reports. Russ, Shawn and I have spent the majority of this afternoon tossing up photo ideas for the poster. We think we've come up with a relatively good idea (to be released soon). Anyway i thought id throw up some frame grabs of our news report from our first movie.. We just watched the news report again for the first time.. soo many laughs such wild hair cuts.

Remember... May 6th, huskisson pictures 8 pm!

Life as a Joey:

my life/alter ego/sickening attempt at a dance move/show poney pose... will be out tonight. Bridge tavern we are on here.. The Joey will be on!

Getting Out of Jail:

Most of you who don't understand the "gentlemen's game" (also commonly known as snooker) wont consider this footage amazing at all. Due to this fact ill try to explain it. Ronnie O'Sullivan is pretty much the Kelly Slater or Ben Player of Snooker and in this video he has severely snooked (made it tough for him to hit the ball he is suppose too) the shit out of this fellas Maguire. In snooker there is an order of coloured balls you must sink.. Maguire is up to the Green ball in this shot.. this means he cannot go for or hit any other ball on the table except the green if he doesn't get it he gives the opponent 4 points which all adds up. Watch the clip and consider the brilliance shown.. remember this guy is a professional snook rippo and is completely attempting to hit the rim of the pocket so the white ball will bounce out and hit the green. PURE, CHAMPERS, CAN SNOOK.. all at the same time. This is what we like to call getting out of jail.

Snook Doggy Dogg:

Some of my most observant friends may have noticed recently of my continuous affectionate status's directed at miss Jezabelle. Let me quickly dismiss any such rumours of a female companion and explain that Jezzy is actually my snooker cue. Her hand crafted, lacquered shaft slides quite elegantly through my phalanges after every shot. As you can see i pretty much gave her the name Jezabelle to swiftly throw down some interesting metaphors and euphemisms. At one stage i was even keeping jezzys snooker results on my calender.. an impressive 14 wins - 2 losses. Obviously i've lost count of wins so the results seem superfluous. This weekend looks like onshore winds and depressing weather.. looks like Jezzy will be getting a workout!

Best Final Ever!

Yesterday arvo was the A-league grand final.. after all my soccer lately ive been super into watching some matches. Not having Austar makes this so sickening so i hit the net in search for a live stream. Watched the whole game was so amazing and then eventually turned it off upset as i had thought Central coast had won with 2 goals in the first half of extra time only 10 minutes left. Watch the highlights and see what happens and just how much of a rookie i was for turning the game off!!

The 93' Varsity Trivia State Runners Up:

Saturday night saw a nice little change to my usual weekend social outings to husky pub. Fellow teachoid Amelia decided to host a Charity trivia night for "Relay for Life". I had never been to a trivia night before so i had no idea what to expect. Obviously there were the veterans of the trivia game rocking up with platters on the table of diced carrots and sliced celery sticks. Not knowing to bring out own food Russ and Howie rushed off to coles to purchase Starburst rattlesnakes and sour worms obvs the food of a champion winning trivia team.

The night was ready to start with good vibes flowing as we were all invited to think of team names. Some real sickening names were being posted by the other teams - "Friends", "the Stigs", "The old Farts", "Simpsons" pretty much any unoriginal team name you could think of was up there. Came around to our turn and no doubt were we pretty keen for something extremely elaborate. Howie Russ and I came up with The 93' Varsity Trivia State Runners Up which we made the announcer call out at every opportunity. Was a surprisingly sweet night with Sean bidding outrageously high for a fishing rod. Photos - team name, and sarah getting into some trivia paraphernalia.

3rd time unlucky for the Shoestring FC:

Last Tuesday Shoeys FC (our summer soccer team) got involved in our 3rd consecutive semi final.. facing off against the Top Guns (basically sussex 1st grade mens team) was always going to be an epic match. Shoeys down two 1st grade players - rippo goaly Jon Lee and Shellharbour shralper Jordo Godley had the disadvantage early off. With just seven up against a full strength Top gun lineup we brought out the big guns and hit FC mode straight away. Early on saw a brill cross from jordo straight into the penalty area which russ casually headed into to give us a one goal lead. Some pretty tech passing and attacking followed throughout the first half as the top guns came from behind to make it 4-2 at half time.

Second half was pretty skitz.. we pushed on straight away with another early goal followed by a penalty about 10metres out. Russ steps up boots the shit out of this ball flies over the cross bar onto the other field knocking some dude straight on the ground. Was so crazy first time ive seen a soccer ball drop a full grown man, everyone burst into fits of laughter until they realised he was sort of hurt and Russ had to walk over and apologise. We ended up losing in the end but we played so well, probs the best we played all season so noone was really too disappointed despite us all being super competitive. Russ Quinn gets man of the match for stepping up as rippo striker for the night with a hat trick. Another year another Shoey FC 3rd place. SICK!

Bruzza rights:

Russell Benson once known as Rev Quinn before he started shooting and being a journo. Sunday afternoon Rev Quinn going back to his roots, double angles.

The Pipe Routine:

I know i called last day of filming a few weeks ago, but the amount of days were clocking up now is ridiculous out our beloved banzaii. When the likes of Beeps, Dallas and Nick O are in the water you cant really put a halt on filming duties.

Goodbyes:

Sorting through my pictorial library the other day i stumbled across this photo.. instantly made me laugh. The memories came flooding back of this epic little day.

It was the day before my little adventure last year to London and Europe for 6 weeks. So i pretty much dedicated the day to visiting and seeing all my good friends before i was about to venture off on a short stint. The morning obviously consisted of main deck hangs with all the fellas and the hellrazors (maino chicks). I threw down a little idea of a stand up battle out pipe for my last day in vinnie and everyone was loving it. Rad times embezzling our feet into some wax whilst the hellrazors sunbaked.
Photo - Han Zam, Firkilicious and The middle east beast going skitz at pipe.

"Champagne"

My friends and myself always seem to find some new activity or sport to conquer during those slow times in Vincentia. Recently we have been loving our Snooker - the gentleman's game as i like to call it. The fact that playing snooker at our local RSL is free is also a mega bonus compared to the ridiculous price of $3 a game on the pub tables. Its such a strategic game that constantly keeps you thinking. During the games.. so much heckling takes place as you would expect, along with a bit of snook jive which we pick up from the old RSL diggers. "Champagne" gets thrown around alot.. eg someone pots a ball... "ohhhh champagne tosti" or lately its been shortened to just "Champers" or plain old.. "Can Snook". Its always fun talking the jive, throwing down some quotes and potting some balls. This particular day so many quotes and heckles were getting thrown out there. Shot 1 is howie using the Super Geach building the bridge on a onesy.. (yer keep up with the lingo on that one), shot 2 is the newly dubbed "quote board" whereby each new quote or nickname gets thrown up. Vanilla kiss is the name of some babe i spotted at Pilgrims beforehand just so you know.

Maino Op Shop Sessions:

Not so affluent times call for not so affluent measures. Three years ago.. back when op shops were a gold mine, super indy and underground, few close friends and i use to clean up. Was the best of times let me tell you.. being on a uni budget and all. However after being let loose from the stranglehold of tertiary education and finding myself in a bit of cash the need to hit the op shop hasn't been there. That an the fact op shops have become full on mainstream, clustered by ex supre fashionistas and skater kids. For some unknown reason i decided to hit the "oppy" for old times sake, and im glad i did. Managed to score a sweet little pair of shoes.. so my love for the "oppy" has regained some momentum. Some rad shoes $1, no biggie!

One fine day:

Along with every predictable south east swell these days comes the circus down to our infamous Black rock and yesterday was no different.. apart from the fact the place actually decided to genuinely pump.

Having filming duties positioned on the north side of the beach obviously i chatted to almost every human that entered the lineup and hence i was gatekeeper.. Unfortunately had to knock back good friend Jack mac for his outrageous Flouro wettie that totally wouldn't compliment his red boots if he was wearing them. Not many big moves went down which made it quite boring to film/watch/sing to my ipod. Two framies... one of an empty.. the other Rudy sweeping around a clean rev.

Shoey FC player of the match:

Tuesday night saw the Shoeys take a rather relaxed casual approach to the match as we took on a much weaker opposition as always. South Coast Treat were our oppositions and oppose us they did with swift hacks to almost all of our ankles. South Coast Treat had a few Girl rippos who put them right in there with a chance. Notable mentions must go out to Pure and the chick on the other team called "Unit". Half time saw a pretty comfortable 3-2 lead with goals from tosti and russell benson. Second half and the Unit managed to punish us with some wild leg volley that somehow made its way inbetween Howie and myself.. obviously we were pretty rattled after this and did not want to lose the game to anyone particularly the Unit. Few big opportunities go by and i start heckling our team like the sero ball sicko i am as per usual. Soph Ellis Bextor drops into fullback with me and is obvs upset from my heckling.. i ask her whats up and she tells me to "Fuck off".

Jordo manages to squeeze one in with a squirrel attack up the side with Tosti. Up 4-3 in the final stages i was pretty cruzy dribbling the ball up out of defense when a rippo chick came in for a tackle, thinking no biggie of it i tried to just nutty her just for some fun.. somehow hits her boot she runs around me and slots one in. Our whole team is shattered as there is like 2minutes left and we are drawing to some sickening team. "That is SICK" i scream out in aggony. Russ, Jordo, and tosti are all drifting off into mega neg spirals as i sprint back up to half way trying to razz the fellas up. Tosti and i manage a sleek little wall pass and i find myself with enough space for a shot in the drizzling conditions. Ball slides through the keepers hands hits the post and goes in.. Shoeys do it again. Sezzy Kent gets player of the match for her domination during the game in defence and attack as well as managing to get away with 3 hand balls in the one game with the ref calling play on. Get a texty later on from Soph apologising for saying "fuck off". Classic match.

Tough Times:

Below the red.. the double warning light.. 14 km until empty, no worse feeling.

The Flat Brim Scene:

Obviously a sickening scene to be apart of.. however i have been told by numerous girls now that they love the flat brim look, this may have inspired my own decision to purchase a Miami heat one. That and Miami heat are fucking brill! Anyway as disgusting as i find flat brims.. its the baseball/basketball team original ones i adore. 151 represent. Bruzza girl Soph Finz reppin LA.

Pick up tips with King Zamoot:

Every Sunday I eagerly await my weekly phone call from one of my best mates Kimberly Zammit. Usually it kicks off with a bit of surf banter before i usually razz him into telling me about babes and his own sexual conquests of the past. As dawn turned to dusk i found my phone disturb me from my chicken and gravy. Zamm and i have a little chat about pipe and our weekend surfs, then he tells me how he is on the way back from a UFC match.. This kind of blew my mind as i thought it was illegal in Australia for some reason. Anyway he starts going on like "ohhh man you should have seen the chicks there" again my mind is blown.. who would have thought hot babelings love watching gigantuan blokes belting the living flowing fluids out of each others bodies. Apparently so Zammit says there were groups and groups of chicks there just frothing on this crazy sport. "aww yer i had the binoculars out just looking at chicks most of the time fuck the fights". Dont worry Zamm obvs id be doing the exact same thing. So there you go listen to the lobbies king himself. Next time your looking to meet or pick up a female human.. don't worry about night clubs, forget coffee shops, disregard grocery shopping.. possibly try a UFC match.. Cheers Zamoot!

Slow days in Vinnie:

Summer drifts away... 24hours are left of the only season that seems to bring me and my tiny municipality any such enjoyment. As the clock ticks over tomorrow night so to will those tourist babes, holiday job prospects, sun tanning sessions, bbqs, beach cricket games.. well metaphorically speaking.

The husky indy rock scene will crawl into neg sprial hybernation.. and no doubt be further encouraged by the endless heckles of Wollongong boysh. The facebook chants and reminders of "slow days in vinnie" seem to be more constant as i feel my neg session spiralling deeper and deeper with every Death Cab song i listen too.

All i have now are the photos that remind me of the sunny, fun, enjoyable season.. a seemingly empty promise that lures us all back, to hang in "Vinnie" for that one extra summer.

Let's hit the beach bitch!

Growing up in Jervis Bay has limited the amount of beach sessions ive endured over the years and for the Blackrock crew and i it definitely has impacted on our surfing. All the fellas i surf pipe with on a regular basis have that one manoeuvre in mind per rideable wave. Constantly looking for that one section to hit rather than linking things together as say an explosive sunny coast rippo shralper would.

So when it comes to beachie sessions all of us tend to be sooooo much more excited.. with heavy emphasis on the "oooooo" in so! Last week a few of us headed down for a little session at a fun beachy and had some rad times. Bubs getting all shacky in the teal green liquid and myself out in search of ramp-age.

The Groms are back:

Seems as though the age of bodyboarding grommets these days continues to decrease.. and by decrease i mean younger, by no means has the talent been on the decline. Im finding more and more as i em-part my knowledge onto the primary children of today, i am starting to recognise more and more out in the ocean. Due to this im constantly telling the delinquents "FUCK its not adam at school.. its Mr Quinn"! With possibly the removal of the F*** bomb, depending on school (obviously sanga public you can swear slash say what the frik you want to kids). Anyway the next gen, Brandan Green out pipe pre-invert.. husky primary represent!

Brendan Clark - The Exclusive Interview:

Shack City brings you the hot topics, the exclusive interviews.. and this is no different we are kicking off with the first ever Brendan Clark Interview. The man has also been kind enough to send us a photo of himself for all of those wondering what he looks like, also for all the babes out there too as brendan will tell you.. they love the blonde hair blue eye combo. The facebook man of mystery, some say the Matty West of Black Rock, lets delve into the mind of this interesting human.

AQ - ok rippo, here we go. BC = Brendan Clark.

1) First of all the question on everyones lips.. Who is Brendan Clark? describe yourself.
BC - Im 16, Live in sanctuary point, have blonde hair with blue eyes , and always out pipe on the pump.

2) Cyclone Zack, Matty West, there are some crazy characters in the bodyboarding world - real and made up. How do you feel when people always ask "who the fuck is that Brendan Clark guy" ?
BC - Yeah it makes me feel good that my photography is getting around everywhere.

3) But yer is it your photography or you constant facebook status updates?
BC - i dont know man

4) You and Johnny Murray.. would you say theres a rivalry?
BC - yeah at times......

5) How many windows do you open up on facey chat every night?
BC - Around 20 or more haha.

6) Your a photographer.. whats your favourite conditions to shoot and what riders?
BC - My Favourite conditions would be on sunny, glassy days.. and my riders would be Adam Quinn,Morgan Brown,Ronald Mcleod, and Glen Thurston.

7) Describe perfect pipe for you..
BC - Glassy 4-5Ft.

8) Photography is bloody expensive, how do you afford that shit.. do you work?
BC - Yeah i work on weekends and my mum normally gives me money for my camera's.

9) I once called a chick i was seeing "baby girl" and my friends never forgave me.. should they forgive me for this?
BC - Yeah they should forgive you because its being cute with your girl hahaha....

10) How does Brendan Clark pick up girls.. where, when, how.. i want strategies.. pick up techniques..
BC - Gotta be my blonde hair and blue eye's,On facebook or surfing.,In the holidays or w/ends and My sweet talking...,
and i reckon you should keep calling your girl "baby girl" cause they love it!

11 )What were you thinking that day going to nuggen on a 2ft north east swell with howling north east winds?
BC - Just thinking of some wave's for once and getting out of the house.

12) What is Brendan Clarks Favourite word?
BC - I dont really have a Favourite word..

13) What is style in the water?
BC - Style is having good technique and doing the biggest airs.

14) Best grom at pipe?
BC - Best grom at pipe would be joel mcleod.

15) Who should have their own section in Shack City?
BC - I think ronald mcleod should have his own section.

16) What do you think Shack City will be like?
BC - It should alot better then I wouldnt normally produce a film. Also should be the sickest movie on the south coast.

AQ - Thanks Brendan Clark.. love your work.

You Got No Head!

"you got no head" the classic one liner used by controversial psychotic drug fucked bodyboarder Troy Kneeves. Speaking of heads , love nothing more than a zoomed in close up head shot. Enjoy the above mug shots.

Like Full Sero Ball Bodyboarding:

Some people take bodyboarding pretty seriously and i definitely cant be left out of that social group.. trying to stay fit, stretching up when its 1ft onshore, bananas and water, drop ins, calling people off waves, photos, footage, stickers.

Looking back it seems pretty messed up but travelling, filming, shooting and "taking bodyboarding too seriously" in general has been some of the fondest memories of my life. This framey above is from Shack City and a trip to Bali we abruptly decided to partake in. As most people tend to do i got stuck in the Kuta Vortex (going out every night) where by i would stay out until 5am every night, anyway this particular day i arrived back at our hotel at 5am after a successful mission. Half an hour later i was being awoken for our morning surf trip to Canju, still dark our taxi driver Rusty takes us through the backstreets of Poppies 2 pointing out some hellraising Aussie surfer getting a bloizer off a lady man and we all burst into fits of laughter. 30 mins on and Russ is in an empty Canju lineup taking forward airs out of frame and beyond. Huge punt.. crossed legs and some very serious bodyboarding.

The Sneak Peak:

Ok so i have this little habit i've picked up somewhere along my night owl escapades of glancing at babes over the top of my glass of beer (as pictured above). Up until recently i never even knew i was doing it until some of the rad maino indy scene picked it up. Like ill be first to admit its pretty creepy, but im not about to ditch doing it at all. Seems like a pretty wicked little trick and although as wicked as it may be, im pribs sure it doesn't hide the act in which im doing - having a perve at some delish touro babe cruzing the pub . Could so easily get caught out.. not that getting caught out is a bad thing sometimes.. i mean as long as you don't have to ship out a few bligs to a buy a girl a drink. Nothing worse!

Shoestring FC: Player of the match.

Shoestring FC is our quaint little summer soccer team. Every year we get so close to winning the title but fall a tad short at the final hurdle. Every tuesday we are starting to have our little Player of the match award to be politically correct (mixed team). Today we voted and it went to Tosti. A classic 9-5 victory for the shoeys with 5 players on the pitch against some nice opposition the Pumapants. Ian, Russ and Jordo all got hat tricks.. well done SHOEYSSSSSSSS and tonights mud bucket went to Ian Osterloh (pictured).

A visual delight of the past few months:

Could not really be fussed typing up a pretentious essay length post regarding the developments of the past year of my life.. so instead ill present it in Jpeg form. Also i plan to uphold an online assault of posts, hopefully one per day. Stay in touch.. the count down to Shack City has begun.

Sexual Predator.

Festival Lyfe.

Fridge 2 Fridge.

Galatasaray - Turkey.

Gypsy and the Frolickers - Crazy Cruzer and Amping Andy.

London foot massage.

Budapest club hangs

The Razz up Begins:

Woah, almost a year since my last post.. please forgive. Ambitions have changed, life goals assessed, moustaches shaved, beverages consumed. Travel, drama, education, job prospects.. 2010 was an epic year, the best.. perhaps!

2011 - a new year, a new film... possibly the only thing that hasn't changed is my mobile phone. Still rocking the Motorolla, 5 years of textual success and devastation a telecommunications legend in its own right.

Shack city is upon us, filming has wrapped up and the editing process is underway. Due to Russell and my own lack of motivation to learn how to use any new sophisticated editing program Mitch Pohl (Bang Bang) has taken control of the proverbial reigns so to speak. We are hoping for an Easter Holiday premiere date in Huskisson. So begin the process of setting your amp, stoke, exaltation.. pick out an outfit from your wardrobe already.. lay it out on your bed, start thinking of that date to ask.. pilfer her phone number perhaps and begin to RAZZ!

(Picture: Angie getting STOKED on "I Wouldn't Normally")